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Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Caitlin McDonough
We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our early career scientist advocates. Caitlin McDonough Co-Chair, Career Development Subcommittee Syracuse University Research Interest: My motivation as a scientist is rooted…
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GSA Journals Spotlight 2016
The GSA Journals, GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, are proud to present our annual Spotlight booklets for research published in 2016. Each Spotlight is a showcase of the excellent research and scholarship published over the course of the year, along with a selection of striking images submitted by our authors. Browse the 2016 GENETICS Spotlight. Browse the 2016 G3 Spotlight. GENETICS SPOTLIGHT CITATIONS 2016 EDITORS’…
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Three outstanding GENETICS articles honored with Editors’ Choice Awards
Congratulations to the winners of the Editors’ Choice Awards for outstanding articles published in GENETICS in 2016! The journal’s Editorial Board considered a diverse range of articles, finding many papers worthy of recognition. After much deliberation, they settled on one exceptional article for each of the three award categories: quantitative genetics, molecular genetics, and population and evolutionary…
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Cause of fatal naked foal syndrome revealed
When a horse is born with naked foal syndrome (NFS), it will likely die early. This genetic skin condition affects the Akhal-Teke horse breed from Turkmenistan, which is known for its speed, endurance, and intelligence. Worryingly, the incidence of NFS seems to be increasing. Although breeders have been aware of NFS for over 75 years,…
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Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Giovanni Hanna
We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our early career scientist advocates. Giovanni Hanna Co-Chair, Communication and Outreach Subcommittee University of California Davis Research Interest: The unfolding development of…
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Tools for transgenic studies in close relatives of D. melanogaster
Thanks to more than a hundred years of working with Drosophila melanogaster, geneticists have many powerful tools for precisely manipulating its genes. It has also become a model system for studying speciation and molecular evolution together with the other members of the melanogaster species group: D. simulans, D. mauritiana, D. yakuba, and D. santomea. However,…